Poison damsel. Woman nourished on poison is fatal to her husbands. Sometimes the poisoning is from fatal look or breath, sometimes from intercourse

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Poison damsel. Woman nourished on poison is fatal to her husbands. Sometimes the poisoning is from fatal look or breath, sometimes from intercourse.

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Scholars’ trail — 7references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

general *Penzer X 265 s. v. "Poison Damsel"
general **Penzer Poison Damsels 3ff.
general Herbert III 211
general *Oesterley No. 11
general **Hertz Abhandlungen 156ff.
general Krappe Mitt. d. schles. Gesell. f. Volkskunde XXVIII (1927) 131ff.
general *bin Gorion Born Judas 2d ed. I 360f.

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3 finer motifs beneath it

Serpent damsel. Woman has serpent inside which comes out and kills her bridegrooms Man spews venom Venomous man

Filed beside it

Extremely old person Dancers upon whom icicles hang Negro so black that he makes whole garden somber Luminous person Remarkable beauty. (Cf. F574.1.)Extraordinary ugliness. (Cf. A2402.)Persons identical in appearance. (Cf. F1072.)[First Edition: F581. Woman who drives those who see her mad. (Inadvertant duplication of F1041.8.1.)]Hero has lain motionless since birth Person remarkably light in weight Phantoms Person who never laughs Man's ferocious glance kills (causes swooning)Person's extraordinary body temperature. (Cf. F546.5)Man whose entrails are visible when he laughs Man's body exudes sweet scent

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